Breaking Down the Real Meaning of an XDR Solution
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In cybersecurity, time isn’t just money, it’s everything. The longer it takes to detect and respond to an incident, the greater the damage to data, operations, and brand reputation. That’s why organizations today are laser-focused on reducing MTTR (Mean Time to Respond).
But here’s the catch: you can’t respond to threats you don’t fully understand. And you can’t understand threats without first understanding your assets.
This is where Fidelis Security steps in. By combining real-time asset profiling, contextual threat detection, and automated response capabilities, Fidelis helps you reduce MTTR without sacrificing depth or accuracy. In this blog, we’ll explore how moving from asset discovery to action using a risk-based, context-driven approach can dramatically accelerate your incident response and improve your SOC’s efficiency.
Let’s be honest, responding to threats isn’t just about having the best tools or the fastest alerts. It’s about knowing what exactly is at risk.
That’s where asset profiling comes in. You can’t protect what you don’t know exists. And in most organizations, there are hundreds, sometimes thousands, of devices, systems, and applications running at any given time. Some are critical to the business; others are just quietly sitting there, until they’re not.
Now imagine this: your security team gets an alert. Sounds urgent. But without context, like which asset is involved, who owns it, how important it is to the business, you’re left guessing.
All this confusion adds up, and eats into your Mean Time to Respond (MTTR).
On the other hand, if you already have a clear profile of the asset, its purpose, risk level, connections, past behavior—your team can act fast and with confidence. That’s the difference asset profiling makes. It turns noise into clarity, and hesitation into action.
And when time is of the essence in cybersecurity, that’s how you bring your MTTR down, without burning out your SOC team or drowning in alerts.
Modern IT environments are complex, think hybrid infrastructure, BYOD, IoT, remote endpoints, and ephemeral cloud assets. This complexity makes IT asset risks harder to manage and introduces gaps in traditional asset inventory management systems.
Without real-time visibility, even the best detection systems can’t provide accurate threat prioritization. This leads to:
In other words, without real-time asset visibility, your MTTR stays high. And high MTTR means increased exposure and potential damage.
Fidelis helps solve this problem at the root, by giving you deep visibility into your IT assets and enabling risk-based asset protection from day one. Let’s break this down:
Fidelis Elevate begins with automated asset discovery across all layers, network, endpoint, cloud, and email. But it doesn’t stop there. Each asset is profiled in context, meaning Fidelis understands:
This rich profiling becomes the foundation for asset-based threat detection.
Once assets are profiled, Fidelis continuously assesses their risk levels in real time. This includes:
This asset risk assessment allows Fidelis to support a context-driven risk mitigation strategy. Instead of reacting to alerts blindly, your SOC knows exactly which asset is affected, how critical it is, and what action should be taken.
This leads to smarter decisions and faster ones.
Fidelis doesn’t just alert, it enables response. By integrating asset risk data with automated detection workflows, Fidelis supports risk-based asset response, allowing your team to:
With this approach, MTTR is no longer just a metric, it becomes a measurable competitive advantage.
A proactive security strategy requires more than tools, it requires a clear asset risk management framework. Here’s how Fidelis supports each stage of the journey:
| Stage | Fidelis Capability |
|---|---|
| Asset Discovery | Real-time visibility across endpoints, networks, and cloud |
| Asset Profiling | Contextual asset metadata: user, role, vulnerabilities |
| Asset Risk Assessment | Continuous scoring based on behavior and exposure |
| Threat Detection | ML-driven alerts based on asset profiles |
| Incident Response | Automated workflows based on asset risk and criticality |
This structured approach ensures SOC efficiency, your team focuses on what matters most, instead of drowning in alert fatigue.
Let’s look at how Fidelis helps reduce MTTR in practice:
Unknown devices appear on your network. Traditional tools may miss them, but Fidelis auto-discovers these rogue assets and immediately profiles them, revealing they’re outdated, vulnerable, and communicating with suspicious domains. Response actions are triggered in seconds.
Result: Threat contained before lateral movement. MTTR slashed from hours to minutes.
An employee clicks on a phishing email. The malicious login attempt is flagged, but instead of treating it in isolation, Fidelis links it to a critical finance server the user recently accessed. Based on asset value and anomaly scoring, the incident is escalated, and access is automatically revoked.
Result: High-risk incident detected and contained with minimal human intervention.
A misconfigured S3 bucket is exposed. Fidelis detects the unusual activity based on behavior anomalies and asset classification. The cloud asset is flagged, and a remediation workflow is initiated via integration with cloud security tools.
Result: Potential data leak blocked before exploitation.
Fidelis offers a full suite of integrated tools to support this journey:
Reducing MTTR isn’t just about buying faster tools. It’s about changing your mindset, from chasing alerts to understanding your assets. When your SOC knows what each asset is, what it does, and what it’s worth, response becomes faster, smarter, and more impactful.
Fidelis gives you the visibility, context, and control you need to accelerate every step, from asset profiling to incident response.
The result? Lower MTTR. Higher confidence. Stronger security.
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